Instant Favorite.

Fresh and Exciting

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting in this movie is really good.

A predictable script, but good performances by all involved. I laughed a few times (cringed a few others). Right mood at the right time -- go for it.

A few nights ago, I had the pleasure of watching a movie that fired on all cylinders; it was that rare bird that I expect achieved everything and more, from all involved, that it set out to be in its original imagining. This waste of 2 hours is its absolute inverse. The script is banal even for a popcorn flick, the humour, such as it is, flat to the point of feeling uncomfortable for the actors tasked to recite them, the characters cartoonish - even for what is at best a live action cartoon in and of itself - and the acting nightmarishly awful; even the usually reliable William Macy coasts on what could only be a self-referential parody of the milquetoast persona he knows the public expects of him by now. Travolta's input is particularly atrocious - one would think the man had never acted outside a high school play, though with the pablum substituting for dialog he was given to recite, perhaps he just decided it wasn't worth the effort. It's not a movie at all, in fact, just a series of flat, unrewarding, pedestrian skits strung together like nuggets of cheap costume jewellery along a slim thread of 2nd unit director establishing, stunt and scenery inserts - mostly (surprise) of 4 guys riding motorcycles. And even with its limited prospects overall, the climax and resolution could not have been more of an eye-rolling, impotently abortive cop-out. Just an abysmal waste of human and technical capital.

Wild Hogs is no shawshank redemption, but for what it's supposed to be, it's pretty entertaining. I really liked the actors. John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray liotta, and Marisa Tomei are all good in their roles. The chemistry between all the guys in the movie works, which is good because without that the film as a whole would pretty much fail. Ray Liotta is a good jackass character, he always is lol. And Marisa Tomei is cute and light in her role, that's really all she needs to be for her character. There are some scenes that are fairly funny and will get the laughs, then there are some gags that fall flat and don't really work. Thankfully though when the comedy that doesn't work happens the actors are still likable enough to keep you from quitting on it. That is all comedy films have to rely on when their jokes don't succeed. I liked the script, it had some really sweet heartfelt scenes between characters, whether it be just friendly or in a romantic sense. The movie is an average comedy movie about a group of older friends who want to "relive the glory days". There aren't a whole lot of twists and turns involved. 7/10 for Wild Hogs.

Cliché, usual, slap dash, typical, corny, cheesy, yep. Funny too.... Oh come on, it's a crap movie OK, it really is! All the characters are sculpted from a mould I use to cut my daughters sandwiches for school. (There's a puzzle price one, some hello kitty's...) The midlife realisation guy leads the tough-when-I-was-young guy, the clueless dweeb and the black guy (because that's really all he is...I every movie he plays...the black guy...) on a midlife adventure, they're followed by a creepy gay cop, and bullied by Ray Leotta (who for some reason has the drying upper lip over ever seen, it's keeps getting stuck above his teeth) who keeps hitting his closet-case, dumb-as-dung side kick for being himself. I stopped expecting fresh, inspiring, realistic art a looooong time ago. It use to get to me, but now I see opportunity in the B grade perspective. Twilight, Demolition man, Big Mommas house, grade A budgets with b grade results. My favourite smug past time. But I couldn't possibly give one more than 5 stars.